commercial MRFs & industrial MRFs

Commercial/industrial MRFs process retail, trade, office, warehouse and factory waste. This waste stream is usually rich in fibres and packaging, which allows O.Kay’s advanced optical sorting technology to recover materials automatically. O.Kay commercial/industrial MRFs are all designed and built to order ranging from single picking lines to automated, high-tonnage systems.

The advantages of O.Kay commercial/industrial MRFs

• Our MRFs can handle commercial and/or industrial and/or skip and/or kerbside materials over the same system.
• We use card (disc) screens remove the OCC (rigid card) automatically
• We offer optical sorting machines to remove brown board, grey board and packaging automatically to deliver pure recovered products
• O.Kay’s large diameter trommels easily process the oversize materials within the waste stream
• The paper and card recovered at our MRFs meets UK paper and board mill specifications
• We include points of access for the direct baling of monofraction materials such as card.
• We design the MRF to use automated or manual sorting to match capital budget
• Presort stations to remove large non-recyclable items
• We can remove any glass content automatically
• Heavy-duty O.Kay machines withstand the hardwearing impact of aggregate, glass or skip waste content
• All our MRFs are fully guarded and covered to protect operators around the MRF

Best quality recovered product

O.Kay is an expert supplier of design-and-build systems capable of processing all tonnages of commercial/industrial materials. Depending on the throughput, we use a mix of mechanical screens, autosorts, air knives, magnets, eddy current separators and picking stations to recover top quality materials for sale to UK mills and reprocessors.

Worker safety

Whether we are installing a single sorting line or a high-tonnage automated MRF, we take the safety of our workers – and the safety your staff – very seriously. Our engineers are trained to the latest UK H&S standards and they infuse these standards into all our designs. They also arrange the in-depth training of all your operating staff so they too will work safely to the highest standards.

Typical equipment within a Commercial/Industrial MRF
Air Knives – to suck/blow out the lights fraction from any stream
Bag Openers – to open bags/sacks and release recyclables
Balers – to reduce the recovered product in size for reduced transport costs
Ballistic Separators – to separate flat-and-light items from rolling-and-heavy items
Bottle Perforators (Plastics) – to pierce and flatten plastic bottles for increased storage and reduced transport costs
Bottle Perforators (Glass) – to smash glass bottles for improved downstream sorting
Cabins – to protect sorters (shelter, heating, ventilation and air conditioning)
Can Crushers – to reduce the size/volume of recovered cans in storage bunker/transport
Conveyors – to transfer material to the screens, separators and bunkers
De-stoners – to separate heavy materials from light materials
Disc (Card) Screens – to remove the fines fraction, to sort papers and card
Eddy Current Separators – to remove the non-ferrous content
Electro and Overband Magnets – to remove the ferrous content
Metering Systems – to allow front-end storage and a ‘perfect-flow’ feed into MRF
Paper Autosorts – to automatically separate all packaging, grey board and brown board from the News fraction using NIR (near infrared) detectors and CYNK (cyan, yellow, magenta and black) detectors and cameras
Plastic Autosorts – to automatically remove all plastics by polymer type and/or by colour
Pre-sorts – a type of picking belt used ahead of the primary screen to remove large contaminants
Picking Belts – to allow human sorters to sort materials or inspect recovered materials
SCADA Control Systems - to monitor and control large plants remotely
Trommels – to separate all types of materials by size (two, three or four-way splits available within single drum)
Walking Floors – to allow fast dumping of materials from trucks onto walking floor, which feeds materials into system. Also used in bunkers to walk materials onto baler feed conveyor

Simple Commercial/Industrial MRF

 

Advanced Commercial/Industrial MRF

Options

• MRFs for all throughput materials
• Automated recovery of packaging, card, paper, glass, FE, NFE, all plastics
• All types of mechanical screens
• Bag Openers (with bypass) for bagged and loose materials
• Cabins with Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Dust Control
• Dust Control systems across the MRF
• SCADA control systems
• Principal Contractor packages
• Preventive maintenance and total after sales customer care packages - please see servicing

Currently in use by these customers

J W Hannay at their commercial MRF in Broxburn,
Shanks at their commercial MRF in Blochairn,
Bywaters at their commercial MRF in Leyton.

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